Sean Adl-Tabatabai on being in the eye of the 'fake news' storm ...
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dl-Tabatabai's site is at the heart of the fake news row and has been accused of trying to destabilise democracy ...Stories that have had Adl-Tabatabai, a former MTV producer from north London, accused of being part of a deliberate campaign to destabilise Western democracies with disinformation. His site has been blacklisted by an EU task force set up to combat Russian propaganda, lives with Sinclair, his American husband — they signed the register in Camden at one minute past midnight on the day that David Cameron legalised gay marriage
idea that he’s an unwitting stooge of the Kremlin: “It’s so weird.” Does he read Russia Today, the Moscow-sponsored news network? “I love Russia Today!” (Of course he does — it’s one of his most cited sources.) You are aware that it’s Russian propaganda, right? “Well, the BBC is British propaganda Adl-Tabatabai had what he describes as an “average childhood”. His father is an accountant of Iranian origin; meeting with David Icke — the former BBC presenter who announced that he was the son of God on Wogan in 1990 — that he describes as “the biggest step”